Chapter 161
The group played in the open-air area until almost nine o'clock in the evening before returning to their rooms to rest.
At the beginning, Jing Ling and Xu Shaohuai were busy on the side while Bai Ningxi and the others enjoyed the ready-made food. When they had almost finished eating, the barbecue grill was idle and the two of them joined the battle. Before this, Yang Xinyao had always maintained a slight advantage. No matter whether she got the landlord card or the peasant card, she won most of the time. So naturally, Song Xiuyuan and Bai Ningxi drank the most. Although she also drank a little, it was not much.
But after Jing Ling and Xu Shaohuai joined in, it was obviously inappropriate for five people to play Landlord, so they changed to playing Blackjack. Perhaps it was because of her good luck that she felt confident. Yang Xinyao was eager to try and joked, "I'm very lucky today. You better be careful!"
Jing Ling smiled and nodded, "Okay."
Bai Ningxi heard this and commented, "His luck is obvious to all. I think Xingguang may be in trouble."
Yang Xinyao snorted at him, "How do you know the result if you don't try?"
And then... in less than an hour, Yang Xinyao and the others were completely defeated. If they hadn't taken into consideration the special circumstances and considered it inappropriate to drink too much, the amount of alcohol they lost would have been enough to make them drunk as mud several times.
"You'll owe it to me first, but you'll have to pay it back when you get back. I have a good memory and I remember it all!" Jing Ling joked.
Yang Xinyao waved her hands weakly, "I am indeed too naive. I will never play this kind of luck-based game with you again!"
Song Xiuyuan and Bai Ningxi had the same feeling. Xu Shaohuai, on the other hand, stared at Jing Ling's hand for a long time, and then asked, "Even if you have always had good luck, but you never lost from the beginning to the end, isn't that a bit too much? I say, are you cheating?!"
Jing Ling smiled but said nothing.
In a gambling game like this, you may be able to win temporarily by relying on luck, but if you want to succeed in the long run, skills are much more reliable than luck.
Perhaps because their lives were no longer in danger and they no longer had to worry, Yang Xinyao and the others slept well. When they woke up, the cruise ship was ready to return. Jing Ling got up unexpectedly late, but everyone else didn't think it was a big deal. Think about the past two days, when everyone was resting, he was on guard, out searching for number plates, and collecting points. Almost everything was done by him alone. No matter how capable he is, he is still a human being, and everyone gets tired sometimes. Conditions didn't allow it before, but now that he can finally relax, he naturally needs to rest.
The cruise ship took two days to return. After reaching the sea area where they first boarded the ship, a small boat took them back.
It was already evening, early spring, and the weather was still a little cool as it had just rained during the day. The sea breeze blows towards you, bringing with it the unique scent of the sea.
The outline of the port ahead became clearer and clearer. It was obviously an ordinary building. She had seen it since she was a child and had never thought of it as anything special. But at this moment, Yang Xinyao felt extremely nostalgic. Soon, the boat docked and the group got off. When their feet stepped on solid land again, Yang Xinyao couldn't help but sigh, "We're finally back!" It was only about a week, but she felt as if a long time had passed. All the blood and sin were drowned in the vast ocean. Except for them, the participants, no one would know what had happened.
Although Bai Ningxi and Song Xiuyuan next to them didn't say anything, their expressions showed it.
I feel a sense of security in my heart.
"I hope I can see you again when the hunting ground opens next time!" said the person who sent them back with a smile.
Xu Shaohuai nodded, "Yes."
"Goodbye, then."
"goodbye."
Watching the boat go away and finally disappear on the sea level, Xu Shaohuai withdrew his gaze, but heard Jing Ling whisper, "We won't see each other again."
He was stunned, and didn't realize what it meant for a moment, so he asked directly, "What's wrong?"
Jing Ling smiled and emphasized, "At least we won't meet again in the hunting grounds in the short term. Even if you want to, you can't."
Xu Shaohuai's eyes suddenly widened, and he looked at Jing Ling in disbelief, "What happened?!"
Jing Ling did not respond. He turned around and walked ahead with his long legs. His voice sounded lazy. "This is not important. Let's talk about it later."
If it wasn't for the wrong place, Xu Shaohuai really wanted to rush over and grab Jing Ling's shoulders and yell, "What do you mean by unimportant?! Obviously, nothing is more important than this!"
The hunting ground has always been a channel that the higher-ups attach great importance to. Many things that cannot be negotiated openly have to be accomplished through this channel. Then he suddenly heard such a sentence, which was without a beginning or an end. If it was said by anyone else, it would be fine, but it came from Jing Ling's mouth. He has never been a person who likes to joke, and he knows his limits very well, and he would not joke about such things.
What’s even more hateful is that he stopped talking halfway!
Damn it later! He had to know the whole story now and what had happened, otherwise he wouldn't be able to explain to his superiors!
"Tell me something clearly, what exactly happened and what do you know?!" Xu Shaohuai chased after him, lowered his voice, and asked with gritted teeth.
However, Jing Ling didn't fall for it. When he arrived at the agreed location and met the person who was meeting him, he got into the car directly, sat in the back seat, leaned back in the chair as if he was resting his eyes, and no matter how Xu Shaohuai asked him questions, he remained silent.
He was determined not to say anything, and Xu Shaohuai had no choice. However, Bai Ningxi on the side suddenly said, "He seems... injured." He was not very sure about the last three words.
"How could that be!" Xu Shaohuai said subconsciously. Except for the splitting up at the beginning of the second round of the game and the few times they went out alone during the process, their team was together most of the time. The only injury on Jing Ling's body was the arm that was injured in the cinema, which was not serious. If he was injured again later, he would not have been unaware of it.
But he soon thought of one thing. Before the cruise ship returned, Jing Ling specifically mentioned to him the reason for the cancellation of the game. At that time, he did not think much about it and believed the statement of "pure curiosity". But considering the current situation, was Jing Ling really just purely curious at that time?
If anything really happened, it must have been the night before the cruise ship returned. Xu Shaohuai couldn't help but wonder, did Jing Ling hear something or... was personally involved? But based on his understanding of the people behind the game, such confidential matters would never be discussed anywhere casually. They must be discussed in a special room, isolated from all equipment, and with someone heavily guarding the door. As for the latter option, it was even more impossible. The person who would handle such a matter would only be the most trusted person. Jing Ling would not be able to get involved in it. The environment of the cruise ship would not give him the opportunity to sneak into the island by taking advantage of the situation.
But after excluding these two options, Xu Shaohuai could no longer think of any other explanation.
This was probably the most uneasy time for him ever. He was anxious to know what happened, but the one who knew the truth was a little bastard, and he had no way to deal with this little bastard!
So he held it in until he reached the base. He watched Jing Ling take a shower and change into pajamas, then use his cell phone to call his girlfriend, sister and manager respectively, with the length of the calls being in the same order. I told the first two people that the work was completed ahead of schedule, and also told them some "interesting things" in the process. I told the last person that I had successfully saved the earth...
He made up stories all the time without blushing, or getting nervous, or even out of breath. Xu Shaohuai was so surprised that he almost forgot about the business. After Jing Ling hung up the phone, he thought it was time to tell her. Just as he was about to ask, he saw Jing Ling went straight back to the room, closed the door and went to sleep!
Xu Shaohuai: “…”
It was not until noon the next day that he was on the verge of an outburst. Jing Ling seemed to have noticed it and told him the whole story.
"You know, everyone has curiosity, and I am no exception..."
The origin of everything is this damn curiosity. After Jing Ling heard the news of the virus leak on the deck, he became concerned and kept observing the environment on the cruise ship and the reaction of the manipulator behind the scenes. He did not find an opportunity when the first advance team landed on the island, but he did not give up the idea. Finally, when the second group of people set off, he found a loophole and sneaked in. The VIP room he lived in provided great convenience.
After successfully landing on the island, the color black became his perfect umbrella of protection, various normal animals became his eyes and ears, and a sudden accident made the laboratory a mess. He was like a fish in water on the island.
I followed the main force to land and then followed the main force back. The whole process lasted seven hours. When he came back, he also brought back a copy of the information from the laboratory.
"I just copied it casually. I don't know if it's useful or not. You can take it and ask someone to look at it." Jing Ling said this. Xu Shaohuai was so shocked at the moment that he didn't think much about it.
"What is the situation on the island?" Xu Shaohuai asked. This is what he is most concerned about at the moment. Just like Jing Ling said, everyone has curiosity, and he is no exception, but before this, there were few things that could make him care.
"On the island..." Jing Ling was absent-minded for a rare moment, but his eyes were cold.
Normal animals are his eyes and ears, and correspondingly there are also abnormal animals with deformed appearances, which are not of any known species, but they have various familiar parts. Not just animals, but humans as well. In apocalyptic disaster works, people who died or mutated at least had obvious human features, but when he saw those, he could hardly recognize even the basic outlines, and it was a stretch to call them human.
"It's a living hell there. They can't control it, so they have to shut it down temporarily."
Therefore, the hunting grounds will not be open for a short period of time. Naturally, it would be impossible for them to meet there again.
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